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1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are you in the Lord. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [(as)] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 7 Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things as a man? or said not the law the same also? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, You shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or said he [(it)] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, [(this)] is written: that he that ploughs should plough in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, [(is it)] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 12 If others be partakers of [(this)] power over you, [(are)] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13 Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live [(of the things)] of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for [(it were)] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [(of the gospel)] is committed to me. 18 What is my reward then? [(Verily)] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For though I be free from all [(men)], yet have I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more. 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [(men)], that I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [(you. 24 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. 25 And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [(do it)] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring [(it)] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. —- Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 </box| Christopedia copyright © 2019. All rights reserved.> </box> </box>